Dreaming Lens: Was the mail carrier delivering mail in your dream? Was the mail delivered to your home? What was the gender of the mail carrier? Was the context of where you saw the mail carrier appropriate? Were you the mail carrier?
Personal Focus: This symbol may soon be going out of the collective consciousness. As computers and modern technology become the norm, the delivery of mail to our homes is becoming a less primary way of staying connected to the outside world. While this may be true, we still live in a time where on an almost daily basis, a human being comes to our front door and delivers items of interest and importance to one degree or another. As a Character Aspect in a dream, a mail carrier is the part of your own personality that remains connected to the larger circles of your life, but is detached from your core personality.
Because of the almost antique nature of this type of communication, this symbol should be thought of as a bit of a throwback to a slower time. The information sent through the mail has a different level of importance associated with it. Be mindful of this distinction; the message may be less important and, therefore, relegated to the slow transaction of snail mail. It is just as possible that possessing the original document is what the priority is, which can only be done through channels that involve human interaction.
The Dreaming Lens will offer key information for a satisfying interpretation. Also to be considered is your relationship (or lack thereof) to the mail carrier in your waking life. Whatever information you have about this individual should be factored into the Character Aspect you assign to this person from your dream. There is a fairly recent cultural meaning to a postal worker that has entered the collective. The term “going postal” has become synonymous with violent outbursts connected with overwhelming stress. If the dream has any dark or shadowy elements to it, you may want to explore the mailman as a Character Aspect of an undercurrent of violent feelings that are just waiting for an inciting incident to allow them to explode.
What a mail carrier is delivering in a dream offers an important second layer of meaning. What new information is your unconscious trying to send you? (See also: Mail.) [1]
If you are the mail carrier, it means you have been overcharged for something you recently bought. [2]